Naps or night?

Question

Our 5 month old doesn’t sleep through the night yet and also takes super short naps, but we can’t decide which we should focus on first. Any suggestions?

Answer

It all goes hand in hand. I'd get them on a good schedule/routine first and foremost. From 4-13 months, our daughter woke at 6:30am, napped from 9:30-11:30am and again from 2:30-4pm and then went to bed at 6:30pm and slept through until morning again. We worked on sleep from the get-go so we had her sleeping through by 5 weeks. Then we put her on a set nap schedule at 4 months because she was doing a lot of cat napping.

Answer

It’s normal for babies to not sleep through the night at that age. I think the age is one or two years before their brains are at that point. 
I’d focus on naps and getting sleep fir yourself at the same time.

Answer

The experts say the way baby falls asleep at bedtime determines everything else. Work on independent sleep at bedtime first. You can try to extend short naps but that won’t influence night waking.

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I would focus on naps first because they’re shorter and can help overall with bedtime too since overtired babies sleep worse at night.

Naps or night?

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